okutuga.

v.tr., okuwanika, okwanika; (strangle) okutuga. h. oneself, okwetuga. h. curtain, okutimba. h. head, okutunula kibundaaza, okukoteka.

choke; kill; fig. rebuke harshly, cf. tuga.

also kijjamalenge (la) baby bom with feet first. (Formerly it was thought that such a child would grow up to he a criminal. It was often strangled and buried at the crossroads. Hence the word sometimes has the meaning of unknown corpse.) cf. olulenge.

a short-necked man, lit. who is lacking (-bula-) a place where he could be strangled (see tuga).

hang (a person).

-etuga (-etuze) v.i. refl. strangle oneself; hang oneself.